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...would not believe how lousy I feel. All my roommates have the flu, and, you know, I think I'm coming down with it. As a result of my feeling rotten, I have been unable to carry out my duties on Dorm Crew, and since I have not cleaned any of the johns in Winthrop House, am in serious danger of losing that job. My father's drinking has increased, and my sister was just rejected by all the colleges to which she applied. I sure hope things get better. I'll be in touch. Yours most sincerely, (Your Name...
...will have nothing to do with your rotten revisionist undertaking...
...Pusey means by calling an activist a Walter Mitty that the activist is only dreaming that he can change American society so that it will no longer be able to prosecute wars such as the one in Vietnam, then surely there is something rotten about society and about the President's concept of an individual's role...
...disaffection at Harvard. Like the author of another recent "annual report," Pusey senses a certain restlessness--but his faith in the loyalty and middle-of-the-road acquiescence of all but a handful of his students remain unshaken. When he undertook to insult students who believe American society is rotten and are in need of redemption, Pusey did not realize how many students see themselves as fitting this description. Ninety-four per cent of the senior class opposes the war, according to the recent CRIMSON Poll, and nearly a quarter stand ready to defy the laws of their country...
Pusey directed his venom at "a small group of overeager young in evidence on many campuses." They act, he said, on "the assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like...